Part IIIInvestigation of Revenue and Customs offences

F1Orders and warrants: common provisions

23FProcedure where documents etc removed

(1)

This section applies where—

(a)

a document is removed under a production order;

(b)

a document or other thing is removed under a Revenue and Customs warrant.

(2)

An officer who removes any document or thing shall, if requested to do so by a person mentioned in subsection (3) below, provide that person with a record of what that officer removed.

(3)

The persons referred to in subsection (2) above are—

(a)

in the case of a document removed under a production order, a haver;

(b)

in the case of a document or thing removed under a Revenue and Customs warrant—

(i)

a person who is the occupier of any premises from which the document or thing was removed; or

(ii)

a person who had possession or control of the document or thing before it was removed.

(4)

The officer must provide the record within a reasonable time of the request for it.